Banana trade and canal plans spark global notes
The article surveys Bombay’s third ranking in British Empire trade, Canada’s chosen 400 mile canal route to connect Georgian Bay and Lake Huron, and rising U S banana consumption with origins. It also touches Downing Street’s Cromwell era envoy and Paris election placard culture, plus Robinson Crusoe Island off Valparaiso for cannery prospects with canning-friendly lobsters and fur seals.
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Georgian Bay
Lake Huron
Montreal
St. Lawrence
Robinson “Crusoe
Juan Fernandez
Mansfield
Valparaiso
Department of State
Maket & Province
Fernandez
Gay old beau of long ago poem reflects aging vanity
An old fashioned verse recalls a be jaunty beau with red tie and gray hair, parading through memory of youth. It laments aging, loss of vigor, and fading with a cane, as onlookers recall past admiration and the passage toward the grave.
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Arma
City Streets and Ball Gown Divide in a Great City
A Chicago Record Herald piece contrasts wealth and poverty in one vast city. It follows Mme Modiste who creates a gown for Miss Majoribanks and a seamstress widow Mary struggling to pay, while a sick child lacks medicine as luxury parades past. The tale links social gaps to a fatal night waiting for help.
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John Boyle O'Reilly
Mme. Modiste
Hillary Street
Modiste
Jean
Haut Ton
Miss Majoribanks
Wilhelm Meister Street
Mary
Apobanks
Mme
Miss Majorivanks
Littl
Edward B. Clark
Chicago Record Herald
King Edward's Oak in Central Park A Royal Tree
In Central Park on the west side of the Mall near the Ruglkes and Goat statue stands an oak planted by King Edward VII around forty years ago during his 1900 visit to the United States. The tree remains well preserved though crooked, with park gardeners giving it special care.
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New York City
Central Park
Edward VII
England
Mall
Ruglkes
Prince of Wales
Early Typewriter Inventions and Innovations Milestones
The earliest writage machine attempt by Henry Mill earned a January 17 1714 patent in England. William Austin Burt patented a crude device in 1829 in the United States. Since 1870, major improvements have overcome the crude limitations of early machines.
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Henry Mill
William Austin Burt
Two Cent Letter Across World Distances under American Flag
A discussion on the Danish West Indies becoming U.S. territory links postal reach to a hypothetical one ounce letter for two cents. Using St Thomas as a starting point, it maps routes from Alaska to Manila and back, totaling about 29 481 miles, showcasing potential U.S. postal reach and rates.
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United States
Danish West Indies
St. Thomas
Point Barrow
Alaska
Arctic Circle
Iceland
North Pole
Tropics
South Seas
Manila
St.Thomas
New York
San Francisco
Unalaska
Nome
Atlantic
Revenue Cutter
Arctic Sea
Bering Strait
Honolulu
Guam
Arctic
Southern Pacific
Golden Gate City
Before I Became a Suburbanite Time Keeper
A Philadelphia Record piece quotes a man who moved to the suburbs noting how daily crowds gather by Chestnut Street jewelry stores to compare watches with official time. He admits he once mocked those punctuality fans but soon learned the value of exact time after missing trains and now joins the crowd at the timepieces.
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Philadelphia Record
Chestnut Street
Rubber From Greasewood Discoveries
A Yankee inventor finds greasewood shrubs contain a gum usable as a rubber substitute. The process bruises the plant, soaks in carbon disulfide, separates a squid like residue, then purifies a gummy elastic material. The method promises desert-derived raw gum for shoe and tire production.
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Deserts
Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post
Reasoning Powers of Crabs Prompt Debate in Fulton Market
Ex fish commissioner Eugene Blackford recalls a crab at Jamaica Bay that picked bait with one claw, took it, and climbed into the bait box. He says if that isn’t reasoning it shows a high degree of instinct. The anecdote appears in The New York Times.
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Eugene Blackford
Fulton Market
Jamaica Bay
The Heels and The Brain A Deduced Staircase Theory
A young observer with Sherlock Holmesian habits explains how boot heel marks on stair steps reveal a man’s mood and behavior. He notes shifts in direction on stairs from street to office, linking downwards motion to rightward shuffles and hesitation during job searches.
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Stella
Kurione
Dollar by Mail. Trustworthy USPS workers rare, says man
A New York Sun note recounts a case of a silver dollar passing through the postal system from the extreme south to New York. The observer points to the potential for pilferage among some postal workers but emphasizes none were tempted, noting the long journey completed without theft.
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Florida
New York
New York Sun
Warm Welcomes For Wrong Man Tale From Con gressman Cummings
A late story told by Amos J. Cummings recounts a congressman guiding a drunken young man to a home only to find the residents have moved. The husky woman at the door shakes the man, then flings him outside as the congressman gathers him. The tale ends with the realization the address was outdated.
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Flore
Amos J. Cummings
Congress
New York Tribune
Red dust storm reveals layers in Alpine ice
European journals say the March African red dust storm colored Alpine girders and left a dust-stained layer in the vast ice streams. This helps scientists track glacier movements more accurately by dating the dust layer and marking its position for long term study.
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Africa
Europe
Alps
Keystone state pensions and regional updates
A weekly summary lists numerous pensions granted across Pennsylvania with amounts from 6 to 30 dollars, naming recipients and towns such as Pittsburg Kittanning and Erie. Other items note a National Guard appointment, regimental color engravings, labor strife in Wilkes Barre, rail and gas line developments, fires, and a local post office change, plus various local incidents and appointments.
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George- Miller
Cochranyilla
William Coburn
McKean
Charles Ernst
Pittsburg
Dominick Scott
Sobestin Cromleigh
Parkersburg
Peter Claver
Kittanning
Peter Heffner
McConnellstown
William Woodring
Saegerstown
Robert Douds
Kenezer
Timothy Rourke
Old City
John R Hershey
Huntingdon
Joseph
McGaughey
Indiana
Emma Miller
Cochranville
Minnie Thomas
Titusville
John ‘H. Blain
Sunbury
James Larzelere
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home
Erie
Clarence T. Longshore
Johnstown
Alcander Malone
Elizabeth
Samuel Morrison
Columbia
Isaac Hunter
Greensboro
Henry Howell
Washington
Clinton J. Dock
Newville
George Jellison
Altoona
Arnold A. Taylor
Spring City
National Guard
Harrisburg
Bert K. Wananaten
Venango
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Lehigh Valley
Baltimore and Ohio
Chesapeake & Ohio
L BP
Farmer
Trunk Lines Association
United States Pipe Line Company
Crtre
Bradford
Pine Grove
W. Va
Seaboard
Marcus Hook
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Penfield
Edward Gangaroar
National
Stewart
Sharon
Ernest Howard
Curry
George Goodwill
Spartansburg
Henry Haddock
Pietcher
Fayette County
Robert H. Ferguson
Lawrence County
Charles Mack
Elmer BE. Mack
Imlertown
Bedford
Dunning Creek
M. J. Dickson
Gold
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London
Liverpool
Russia
Carnegie
America
British West Indies
Costa Rica
Honduras
Nicaragua
Cuba
Downing Street
New
Paris
Sergents de Ville
Rar
Keystone State News
Pine Line
Lord Wolseley
Ladysmith
Scotch
Kuiwe
Apilepeyy
Herypan
Carter
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